applied brooch

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Object Type
Museum number: 1970,0406.942
Description: Copper-alloy applied brooch with gilded top plate (fragmentary); remains of copper-alloy pin and spring around iron axis bar, some solder from a back plate. Repoussé decoration on top plate consists of central boss with depression in middle surrounded by beaded border forming the centre of a six-pointed star; double outer border consists of beaded border within raised wave border; textile remains.
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Mucking, grave 975 cemetery II, inhumations
Materials: copper alloy; solder; gold; textile
Technique: repoussé; applied; gilded; soldered (?)
Dimensions: Diameter: 37 millimetres (approximately); Weight: 10.70 grammes
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1970
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1970,0406.942

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